2 customisable OKR examples for Soft Skills Training
What are Soft Skills Training OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
Creating impactful OKRs can be a daunting task, especially for newcomers. Shifting your focus from projects to outcomes is key to successful planning.
We have curated a selection of OKR examples specifically for Soft Skills Training to assist you. Feel free to explore the templates below for inspiration in setting your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read our OKR guide online.
Building your own Soft Skills Training OKRs with AI
While we have some examples available, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. You can use our free AI generator below or our more complete goal-setting system to generate your own OKRs.
Our customisable Soft Skills Training OKRs examples
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Soft Skills Training. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
1. OKRs to enhance soft skills proficiency amongst the sales team
Enhance soft skills proficiency amongst the sales team
Implement a comprehensive soft skills training program for the entire sales team
Identify potential trainers experienced in soft skills courses
Develop a suitable curriculum for the training program
Schedule the training sessions for the sales team
Increase sales team's customer satisfaction rate by 15% post-training
Regularly monitor and evaluate sales team's customer interactions post-training
Develop comprehensive, customer-focused training program for sales team
Implement feedback/improvement sessions based on customer interactions evaluation
Achieve an average post-training evaluation score of 85% or higher
Organize interactive post-training revision sessions
Implement regular feedback and improvement methods
Develop an engaging and comprehensive training program
2. OKRs to enhance soft skills through effective cross-team collaboration
Enhance soft skills through effective cross-team collaboration
Lead one cross-team project resulting in a 20% increase in team efficiency
Evaluate and report the efficiency increase
Identify a project involving multiple teams
Develop and implement efficient cross-team strategies
Attend two cross-department training sessions per month to expand interpersonal skills
Schedule attendance to two sessions
Identify available cross-department training sessions
Participate actively in chosen sessions
Score at least 4.5 in a peer-reviewed soft skills assessment by quarter end
Practice and master active listening and empathy
Request and attentively incorporate peer feedback
Enroll in and complete a soft skills improvement course
Soft Skills Training OKR best practices to boost success
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
Focus can only be achieve by limiting the number of competing priorities. It is crucial that you take the time to identify where you need to move the needle, and avoid adding business-as-usual activities to your OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
![Tability Insights Dashboard](https://tability-templates-v2.vercel.app/_next/static/media/tability-insights-board.e70f9466.png)
Tip #2: Commit to weekly OKR check-ins
Having good goals is only half the effort. You'll get significant more value from your OKRs if you commit to a weekly check-in process.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
![Tability Insights Dashboard](https://tability-templates-v2.vercel.app/_next/static/media/checkins-graph.b2aec458.png)
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples above). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
How to turn your Soft Skills Training OKRs in a strategy map
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.
![A strategy map in Tability](https://tability-templates-v2.vercel.app/_next/static/media/tability_strategy_map.2ad25843.png)
If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
More Soft Skills Training OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
OKRs to enhance workforce capabilities
OKRs to enhance the team's sprint goal attainment and continuous improvement
OKRs to reduce staff turnover across the company
OKRs to discover and evaluate effective threat hunting tools
OKRs to increase contract bookings significantly
OKRs to generate a comprehensive audience engagement strategy
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: What is the meaning of OKRs
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples
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